Laurence Olivier
Actor
Films to Rent
- As You Like It (1936)
- Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sir Felix Aylmer…
- Early cinematic adaptation of the bard's comedy is stagey and very mannered, but boasts an exceptional cast with a young Olivier a stand out.
- Fire Over England (1937)
- Dir. William K. Howard
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Dame Flora Robson, Raymond Massey…
- The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as the backdrop for this lavish drama. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval…
- Divorce Of Lady X (1939)
- Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson…
- Sprightly Technicolor story has Olivier playing a barrister who falls in love with the woman he thinks his client will soon be divorcing.
- Twenty One Days (21 Days Together) (1940)
- Dir. Basil Dean
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks…
- Laurence Olivier plays a playboy embroiled in the death of an attractive model's blackmailer in this curious pre–war melodrama, from the…
- Carrie (1952)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins…
- Tough–minded and unusual "male melodrama" follows middle aged restauranteer Olivier's descent from riches to rags when he falls for Jones'…
- Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…
- Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all.
Both a finely…
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…
- Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
- American Film Theatre - Three Sisters (1970)
- Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright…
- Three sisters stuck in the Russian provinces pine for distant Moscow in this comprehensively faithful adaptation of Anton Chekhov's famous 19th…
- Long Day's Journey into Night (1971)
- Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. Laurence Olivier
- A made–for–television National Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's classic play, which won Laurence Olivier an Emmy for best actor.
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
- Dir. Robert Bolt
Feat. Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain…
- Playwright Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) debuts as dir. with this intelligent account of the titular Englishwoman. Managing to rock early 19th…
- Love Among the Ruins (1975)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Blakely…
- Nicely polished period TV–movie, with barrister Olivier defending aging beauty Hepburn, who is being sued by a gigolo for 'abandonment'. Of…
- Seven Percent Solution, The (1976)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…
- Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
- Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…
- Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
- Little Romance, A (1979)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Anna Massey, Arthur Hill…
- Sweet minor comedy in which aged charmer Olivier persuades two teenage lovers – American boy, French girl – to run off together.…
- Dracula (1979)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence…
- Elegant variation on the Bram Stoker classic tones down the horror elements and amps up the eroticism with Langella an exceptional Count.
- Jazz Singer, The (1980)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier
- Tepid updating of the 1927 Al Jolson film, this has singer–songwriter Neil Diamond debut as a... er, songwriter, who must choose between…
- Wagner (1983)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…
- Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
- Bounty, The (1984)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier…
- Robert Bolt’s (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) version of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ tale of Fletcher Christian’s (Mel Gibson) mutiny…
- Jigsaw Man, The (1984)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George…
- Squandered reteaming of SLEUTH adversaries Olivier and Caine finds the latter, playing a double agent, evading the manhunt of British and Russian spy…
- Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986)
- Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif…
- Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
- Ebony Tower, The (1987)
- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi…
- Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
- Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie…
- Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
- John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier…
- Exemplary presentation traces the life and works of groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne, whose 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' changed the…